Senior Billing & Revenue Assurance Specialist

SUMMARY:
Are you a billing specialist with a sharp eye for discrepancies, advanced Excel skills, and a talent for turning complex billing data into actionable business insights?

POSITION INFO:
A leading organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Billing & Revenue Assurance Specialist to take ownership of the Group's billing processes, ensuring billing is accurate, complete, well-controlled, and delivered within strict monthly deadlines . This is an exciting opportunity for a highly analytical and detail-oriented finance professional who thrives in a high-volume environment and enjoys investigating discrepancies, performing complex reconciliations, identifying revenue leakage, and strengthening billing controls. The successful candidate will oversee the full billing cycle , working closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers while providing guidance and support to the wider billing team. Key Responsibilities: Billing Management & Revenue Assurance Oversee the Group's billing function, ensuring all billing activities are completed accurately, completely, and within required deadlines. Perform detailed reconciliations between supplier billing, customer billing, and internal records. Investigate billing variances, discrepancies, and exceptions, identifying root causes and corrective actions. Identify potential revenue leakage, incorrect billing, missed billing opportunities, and control weaknesses. Review pricing, VAT, discounts, credits, refunds, cancellations, and collections to ensure billing accuracy. Validate supplier billing, commissions, annuities, rebates, and related charges. Perform rebate calculations and maintain accurate supplier invoice summaries. Monitor recurring billing and investigate unusual movements, trends, and inconsistencies. Resolve complex billing queries and escalations in collaboration with relevant stakeholders. Identify and recommend improvements to billing processes, controls, systems, and procedures. Monthly Billing & Processing Manage monthly billing requirements and ensure all strict cut-off deadlines are consistently achieved. Ensure commission calculations and debit order processes are completed accurately and on time. Proactively follow up on outstanding information required to complete billing. Ensure billing controls and procedures are consistently applied. Assist with ad-hoc billing requirements and projects as required. Billing Analysis & Reporting Analyse and reconcile large volumes of billing data to ensure accuracy and completeness. Identify trends, variances, exceptions, and discrepancies and assess their potential financial impact. Prepare detailed billing analysis, reconciliation, exception, and variance reports. Provide management with meaningful insights to support operational and strategic decision-making. Monitor billing controls and ensure identified issues are investigated, resolved, and appropriately followed up. Use data analysis to identify opportunities to improve billing accuracy, efficiency, and revenue recovery. Team Guidance & Support Provide guidance, technical support, and assistance to members of the billing team. Review team output and assist with complex billing queries and escalations. Monitor adherence to billing processes, controls, and monthly deadlines. Coach and support team members where errors, knowledge gaps, or process challenges are identified. Provide relevant people-management and supervisory support in line with company policies and procedures. Job Experience and Skills Required: Matric \/ Grade 12 - essential . A relevant qualification in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Data Analytics , or a related field. 5+ years' experience in a high-volume billing or finance environment. Experience providing senior-level guidance, oversight, or supervision within a billing team. Strong experience with billing reconciliations and large datasets . Proven ability to investigate discrepancies and identify root causes. Strong supplier and stakeholder management experience. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills , including PivotTables, XLOOKUP\/VLOOKUP, SUMIFS, data analysis, and large-scale reconciliations. Power Query experience would be advantageous. Experience with billing or finance systems such as BPO, Sage, Porta, Splynx, Call Cabinet, ATOM, SimControl, Laserfiche, Cloud on Demand, FileZilla, or Albatross would be advantageous. Apply now! For more exciting (Finance\/ Engineering\/ IT \/ Supply Chain \/ Commercial & C-Suite) vacancies, please visit: If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles \/ positions. For more information, contact: Juanette Lotter Executive Consultant